San Diego beaches will be packed with hundreds of thousands of visitors this holiday weekend, and local clean water advocates are hoping all those people don't leave behind a pile of trash.
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of beach season in San Diego, so the group I Love A Clean San Diego is working to make sure the beaches stay in good shape.
Morgan Justice-Black said her organization distributed temporary trash and recycling bins to make it easy to keep the beaches clean.
"We really focused a lot of our efforts around how we can prevent those (holiday) weekends from really getting out of control and leaving the beaches strewn with debris," Justice-Black said.
The group expects to collect 25,000 to 100,000 pounds of trash in the containers.
Justice-Black said she is prepared to see all types of trash, including "Styrofoam coolers the people have purchased just for the weekend and have ditched on the beach, or a lot of food wrappers or water bottles or soda cans. Things that people are consuming and then just leaving."
I Love A Clean San Diego is also organizing a beach cleanup on Tuesday in Carlsbad.
